Ester Dean Quotes

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

We're always in the studio pretty much, either at home or on the road, trying to come up with new ideas and stuff.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.

I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

When I did '3 Nights,' it was just one of those days where we'd gotten enough sleep, enough food, and we were excited.

When we auditioned for 'The X Factor,' we were five individuals going into the show. That obviously means we are five solo artists in our beings, so we have our own creative ideas, of what sounds the best music-wise, because we are all artists.

An album takes a lot of work and energy and dedication to make.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I write in the studio.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.